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Event Date: March 23rd, 2023
4pm-5:30pm

Book Talk: Phil Gorski, “The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy”

Please register to join us on March 23 at 4pm for a book talk featuring Phil Gorski, Frederick and Laura Goff Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at Yale University, discussing his new book (co-authored with Samuel Perry), "The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to Democracy." The respondent will be David Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor Emeritus of History at UC Berkeley. Carolyn Chen, Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion and Professor of Ethnic Studies, will moderate.

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